Word: p
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower called Attorney General William P. Rogers into conference in Washington at week's end to range over the nation-splitting dispute. Meanwhile, somehow, thousands of U.S. schoolchildren in thousands of U.S. communities were threading through legal hairsplitting, hoodlum threats, racist hobgoblins, across small steps of progress and bridges of hope on their annual way back to school...
...sessions in the marketplace, clerks and customers would steal the counters bare (as they did in a small-scale experiment with a self-service store in Milan in 1949). But after Romans stampeded the big U.S. supermarket set up under the direction of Grand Union's President Lansing P. Shield at an international food congress in Rome in 1956, enterprising Italians and American businessmen decided the time had come to improve on Trajan...
...Roman Catholic Church. Yet, as the battle grows hotter, militant partisans of integration are troubled by signs that the Catholic position may be weakening. Speaking to the first National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice at Chicago's Loyola University last week, Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Raymond P. Hillinger said flatly that those who fail to accept the church's stand for full racial equality "simply are not Catholic, and there are no two ways about it." But the 400 delegates found many a straw in the wind that seemed to be blowing the wrong way. Items...
Icons bought up at the turn of the century by N. P. Likhachev, whose collection is now in Leningrad's Russian Museum, and I. S. Ostroukhov, whose collection is now in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, laid the basis for scholarly study. Cleaning them for the first time in centuries was a revelation. Says Soviet Expert Victor Lasareff: "In place of dark, gloomy icons coated with a thick layer of varnish, [viewers] beheld glorious works of art, radiant with colors as bright as precious stones. They blazed with the flame of cinnabar; they caressed the eye with their subtle...
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